A Finaeon Guide Powered by GFDThis book provides a history of currencies for each currency-issuing country or territory on Earth. Sections offer details about coins and banknotes, along with brief histories to help contextu...Loe edasi...
This open access volume explores the history of short-term employment and precarious work in pre-industrial Northern Europe. Contrary to popular belief, stable, long-term employmentpotentially lasting decadeswas uncommon in Northern Europe until the...Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the tontine, an innovative financial instrument conceived and implemented in various settings throughout Georgian and early Victorian Britain. The book draws on metic...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198896074)
What did work mean to Shakespeare? And what does it mean to work in Shakespeares plays? Work was a quintessential part of early modern society, as it is today. But the meanings attached to different forms of work were changing in important ways duri...Loe edasi...
Offering an accessible and wide-ranging account of how Shakespeare engaged with the working world around him, this book demonstrates that we can come to a richer understanding of Shakespeares dramatic output and cultural legacy if we attend to how...Loe edasi...
Mahmoud Mohieldin, Marcelo M. Giugale, Racha Ramadan
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198939047)
What would it take to unleash a more prosperous, equitable, and sustainable Egypt? The Oxford Handbook of the Egyptian Economy answers this question by providing in-depth research on every corner of the countrys development puzzle. The volume concl...Loe edasi...
This book charts the accelerating dynamics and disruptions of transformative change between 1960 and 2011, focusing on themes of political economy and terrorism, culture and identity, and environment....Loe edasi...
Female convents in early modern Lisbon were important economic, cultural, social and even political spaces which housed generations of elite women. Until now they have received much less attention than comparable institutions across the early mode...Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary examination of how complexity emerges, transforms, and accelerates across the entire 13.8-billion-year history of the Universe. It brings together chapters from leading researchers to explore th...Loe edasi...
In seventeenth-century England goldsmiths became what we would now recognise as bankers. Goldsmiths shops sold not only gold and silver plate but also instruments of credit, such as bonds and bills of exchange, and offered safe places to lodge capit...Loe edasi...
This open access book examines how Piedmont, in early modern Italy, developed silk production into a distinctive system of technological and social innovation. It explores the ways in which this fragile yet economically significant material shaped r...Loe edasi...
This is a comprehensive guide to measuring the performance of the Chinese economy in historical context, bridging the gap between economic methods and economic history to showcase the cutting edge of quantitative Chinese economic history research....Loe edasi...
The book explores the emergence of Bengali entrepreneurship in tea industry of colonial Bengal. Despite the ‘Divide and Rule Policy’ of the British Government, it shows how the rising tide of nationalism united them and ushered in Indianisation of th...Loe edasi...
A #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMAS FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2025 NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 IN THE Financial Times, Economist, New Statesman, Bloomberg, TIME, Washington Post and The New York Times Superb.....Loe edasi...
This book sorts out the causes, consequences and the evolution path of Chinas economic reform process from the historical dimension of Chinas economic policy changes, from which the long-standing contradi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009602341)
What is the relationship between economic interdependence, war, and peace? William Mulligan reveals the deep connection between international economic relations and great power politics that helps to explain both how the European great powers mainta...Loe edasi...
Between 1945 and 1960, Germany and Japan rocketed from crushing defeat to become two of the five largest economies in the world positions they have maintained since. What accounts for this remarkable transformation? In this uniquely comparative acc...Loe edasi...
The Danish Economy in the Twentieth Century (1987) shows how Denmark was less severely affected by the Depression of the 1930s and the two world wars than other countries in Europe and how it maintained its position by the skilful exploitation of it...Loe edasi...
Planning and Productivity in Sweden (1976) examines the success of Swedens economy and working arrangements, detailing how a resource-poor nation came to achieve such high living standards. The growth in prosperity was no accident, but involved cons...Loe edasi...
Spain belongs to the group of European peripheral economies where the diffusion of the British Industrial Revolution failed during the 19th century, as Professor Jordi Nadal underlined half a century ago.This book presents the analysis of l...Loe edasi...
This book offers a groundbreaking analysis of the ancient Ever-Normal Granary system, illuminating its significance in both historical and modern economic discourse. This work systematically explores the theories and practices of buffer stocks withi...Loe edasi...
This book explores the historical evolution of monetary theory while placing a particular focus on the relationship between currency and credit money. Rather than using traditional classifications based on schools of thought, it develops a structure...Loe edasi...
Church and Manor (1913) examines the unit of English territorial organisation known as the manor. It considers the manor and the church to be key twin parts of this unit, and by analysing the church and manor, this book provides valuable insight int...Loe edasi...
Economic Integration in East and West (1976) explores the logic of economic integration to form free trade areas and common markets, and applies the findings to the European Economic Community and Comecon, and to third countries and the world econom...Loe edasi...
Industrial Action (1976), written by an experienced active trade unionist, brings valuable real-world examples to an examination of the many facets of trade union organising. It looks at the organising of the workforce, recruitment of new members, w...Loe edasi...
Saudi Arabia, the West and the Security of the Gulf (1986) considers the geopolitical environment of the Arab Gulf and the nature and threats to Western interests in the region. It also examines the political, economic and other Gulf resources that...Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary exploration of Naples, a city of profound historical depth and multifaceted complexity, situated at the crossroads of European and Mediterranean history. Spanning from the Late Middle Ages to the...Loe edasi...
This book provides a succinct history of a medium-sized silk-weaving firm, Grout & Co, concentrating on the Canadian branch plant it set up following the First World War and operated for three decades. Extraordinarily full records of this proto-mult...Loe edasi...
A Finaeon Guide Powered by GFDThis book provides a history of currencies for each currency-issuing country or territory on Earth. Sections offer details about coins and banknotes, along with brief histories to help contextu...Loe edasi...
This open access volume explores the history of short-term employment and precarious work in pre-industrial Northern Europe. Contrary to popular belief, stable, long-term employmentpotentially lasting decadeswas uncommon in Northern Europe until the...Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the tontine, an innovative financial instrument conceived and implemented in various settings throughout Georgian and early Victorian Britain. The book draws on metic...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198896074)
What did work mean to Shakespeare? And what does it mean to work in Shakespeares plays? Work was a quintessential part of early modern society, as it is today. But the meanings attached to different forms of work were changing in important ways duri...Loe edasi...
Offering an accessible and wide-ranging account of how Shakespeare engaged with the working world around him, this book demonstrates that we can come to a richer understanding of Shakespeares dramatic output and cultural legacy if we attend to how...Loe edasi...
Mahmoud Mohieldin, Marcelo M. Giugale, Racha Ramadan
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198939047)
What would it take to unleash a more prosperous, equitable, and sustainable Egypt? The Oxford Handbook of the Egyptian Economy answers this question by providing in-depth research on every corner of the countrys development puzzle. The volume concl...Loe edasi...
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lords of Finance comes a brilliant account of the earliest truly global financial calamity. On Friday, 9 May 1873 the Vienna stock market collapsed. Four months later Wall Street was in troubl...Loe edasi...
This book charts the accelerating dynamics and disruptions of transformative change between 1960 and 2011, focusing on themes of political economy and terrorism, culture and identity, and environment....Loe edasi...
Female convents in early modern Lisbon were important economic, cultural, social and even political spaces which housed generations of elite women. Until now they have received much less attention than comparable institutions across the early mode...Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary examination of how complexity emerges, transforms, and accelerates across the entire 13.8-billion-year history of the Universe. It brings together chapters from leading researchers to explore th...Loe edasi...
In seventeenth-century England goldsmiths became what we would now recognise as bankers. Goldsmiths shops sold not only gold and silver plate but also instruments of credit, such as bonds and bills of exchange, and offered safe places to lodge capit...Loe edasi...
Even before its launch, economists questioned whether the Euro Area had what it takes to become an optimal currency area. The onset of the crisis in 2010 confirmed challenges in its construction that many had partly predicted. But has the Euro Area......Loe edasi...
This open access book examines how Piedmont, in early modern Italy, developed silk production into a distinctive system of technological and social innovation. It explores the ways in which this fragile yet economically significant material shaped r...Loe edasi...
This is a comprehensive guide to measuring the performance of the Chinese economy in historical context, bridging the gap between economic methods and economic history to showcase the cutting edge of quantitative Chinese economic history research....Loe edasi...
The book explores the emergence of Bengali entrepreneurship in tea industry of colonial Bengal. Despite the ‘Divide and Rule Policy’ of the British Government, it shows how the rising tide of nationalism united them and ushered in Indianisation of th...Loe edasi...
A #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMAS FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2025 NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 IN THE Financial Times, Economist, New Statesman, Bloomberg, TIME, Washington Post and The New York Times Superb.....Loe edasi...
This book sorts out the causes, consequences and the evolution path of Chinas economic reform process from the historical dimension of Chinas economic policy changes, from which the long-standing contradi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009602341)
What is the relationship between economic interdependence, war, and peace? William Mulligan reveals the deep connection between international economic relations and great power politics that helps to explain both how the European great powers mainta...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The New Press, ISBN-13: 9798893850581)
A “lucid, detailed, and imaginative analysis” (The Nation) of the model city that working-class New Yorkers created after World War II—and its tragic demiseMore than any other city in America, New York in the years after th...Loe edasi...
